CaseCircle1997

Ontario (Canada), ON, Canada

Green doughnut passing directly overhead at high speed (90 degree arc in 3 seconds).

Report quality: Moderate43/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-20
Where
Ontario (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
34.063, -117.651 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-ontario-canada-on-1997-51b9ff
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Ontario (Canada), Canada shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 63 reports came from Canada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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